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Sunday, September 14, 2008

Well, we're 3 weeks in on the GTSB College Football Pick'em Challenge. Here's the overall leaderboard:

Overall Standings Through Week 3

Rank

Selection

W-L

Pts

1

GTKirk99's picks

29-7

215

2

VegasJacket's picks

30-6

211

3

PCooper

30-6

206

3

ARCHER_DAVE's picks

31-5

206

5

augustabuzz's picks

27-9

205

6

GTPOJE's picks

28-8

204

6

Blue Pants's picks

29-7

204

6

greenbrier's picks

29-7

204

9

sealegs's picks

29-7

203

9

willwc's Picks

29-7

203

11

Koriasneeeeeegro's picks

29-7

202

12

magicode's picks

28-8

201

13

Good Buzz' picks

28-8

200

13

tsrich's picks

28-8

200

13

GTBlogScott's picks

27-9

200

13

rach8347's picks

28-8

200

13

sockerdude32's picks

30-6

200

18

Zach

27-9

199

18

JiggyMcBee's picks

27-9

199

18

theGTgent

28-8

199

18

GTCardinal's picks

28-8

199

22

taverenGT's picks

27-9

198

22

Mark's picks

28-8

198

22

gtNC's picks

28-8

198

22

Ben

30-6

198

22

cpajacket's picks

29-7

198

Congrats to GTKirk99 for his stellar picking and confidence point choices. VegasJacket is close behind, but these two guys have built a slight lead.

What it shows you is how important those confidence points become. If you get a game wrong, you don't want it to cost you more than 5 or 6 points, or you really start dropping in the standings. I'm 27-9 overall picking games, but I'm tied for 13th place out of 173 people total, with 200 points.

For example, this week there were 12 games, and I went 8-4. I got my points for #12, 11, 10, 8, 6, 5, 4. So I missed out on all my lowest three confidence picks (#1,2,3), in addition to #9 and #7. Overall, I'm 27-9, but there a lot of people who have a better record picking games (like "SimpleGT" who is also 27-9, but finds himself in 133rd place with only 170 points).

I've locked the games in for this week, although they're not available yet for picking. In addition to the ACC slate and UGAg, I added Bama/Ark, Fl/Tenn and LSU/Auburn. I thought about Navy/Rutgers, but decided 12 games was enough.